Sec. 660.113. RESTRICTED REIMBURSEMENTS    


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  • (a) A state agency may not reimburse a state employee for a lodging expense incurred at a place that is not a commercial lodging establishment.

    (b) A state agency may not reimburse a state employee for a meal or lodging expense the employee incurs while traveling outside the employee's designated headquarters for less than six consecutive hours unless the employee is a chief administrator of a state agency or the travel provisions of the General Appropriations Act authorize the reimbursement.

    (c) A state agency may not reimburse a state employee for a meal expense incurred within the employee's designated headquarters unless the expense is:

    (1) mandatory; and

    (2) connected with training, a seminar, or a conference.

    (d) A state agency may reimburse a state employee for a meal expense incurred while traveling without an overnight stay away from the employee's designated headquarters only if the chief administrator of the agency authorizes the reimbursement.

    (e) A state agency may not reimburse a state employee for the purchase of an alcoholic beverage, unless the employee is a peace officer who purchased the beverage as a purchase of evidence in an administrative or criminal case.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1300, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.